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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Less important guests go to the east entrance, on East Executive Ave., and reach the White House through a long corridor-cloakroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Briar Pipes. Reduction from 60% to 30% or 40% was asked for Dunhill and other pipes. Others asked a duty of $10 per gross on pipes sold for $1 or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Romanticist: The result of which is less dates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DUTCH TREAT DATES" | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...from his non-journalistic contemporary. But if the oneness of the undergraduate mind is admitted, where is its title to an opinion? It is a common error to suppose that association with a set of circumstances brings the right to judge fitness or unfitness. But nowhere is this belief less true than in an undergraduate body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT, FANCY AND OPINION | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...looks like a forced fraternity system and it is no wonder that the editors of the Lampy and The Crimson are voicing protest. Fraternities can exist in America because they have freedom of selection--they can choose the people they want to live with as a more or less unified group and they have no one to blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syracuse Says Thumbs Down | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

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